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Disturbing story about when foreign adoption goes awry. (may need to subscribe)

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Most foreign adoptions conclude happily, and Alex's death is a rarity amid the more than 20,000 foreign children--nearly a quarter of them from Russia--who find homes in the U.S. every year. Yet it sheds light on hundreds of cases in which parents have taken in children only to find themselves overwhelmed by medical and behavioral problems that often are poorly documented in Russian medical records.

Since 1996, adoptive parents have been accused of killing at least 12 Russian children. Experts know of no other country from which so many children have died.